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Queen’s Belfast creates cyber security lab for local community

Queen’s Belfast creates cyber security lab for local community

[ad_1] An aim of the facility is to work with global companies, start-ups and SMEs to form a strong response to cyber security attacks. The CSIT Test lab includes a high-speed network interconnected via a multi-gigabit optical fibre to the public Internet.  Professor Sakir Sezer The facility’s experimental test network includes a virtual environment thatRead more about Queen’s Belfast creates cyber security lab for local community[…]

Best SSL certificate services to buy from in 2018 : Get the cheapest price today

Best SSL certificate services to buy from in 2018 : Get the cheapest price today

[ad_1] Best SSL certificate providers In the middle ages, the Knights Templar established the key processes for the modern system of notary services, banking, loans, and mortgages that we have today. During that era, Knights carried with them documentation that proved their identity, created by a notary, often embossed with official wax seals. The importance of theseRead more about Best SSL certificate services to buy from in 2018 : Get the cheapest price today[…]

micro:bit heads for Canada

micro:bit heads for Canada

[ad_1] “Our agreement with Fair Chance Learning fits perfectly with the global need to create more electronics engineers,” says Kitronik co-founder and director Kevin Spurr, “we are privileged to support the greater emphasis on computing, coding and electronics which we are now seeing. From our work with teachers, trainers and students, we can see theRead more about micro:bit heads for Canada[…]

Samsung won't have to patch your old phones, court rules

Samsung won't have to patch your old phones, court rules

[ad_1] The fight to get better phone security seems to be a losing battle, quite literally, with a Dutch court ruling that Samsung isn’t obliged to patch its older phones. While Google dishes out software updates for Android on a regular basis, it passes them on to the phone manufacturers for distribution to users. SamsungRead more about Samsung won't have to patch your old phones, court rules[…]

6mm nuclear battery lasts for 100 years

6mm nuclear battery lasts for 100 years

[ad_1] The cell used the beta (fast electron) decay of nickel-63 and diamond Schottkys for energy conversion. The prototype has a stack of 200 diamond converters interleaved with nickel-63 and stable nickel foil layers, and achieved ~1μW output, equating to ~10μW/cm3 – enough for a modern pacemaker, according to the team – which was assembled from the MoscowRead more about 6mm nuclear battery lasts for 100 years[…]

Philips Hue Sync app transforms video into a brilliant light show

Philips Hue Sync app transforms video into a brilliant light show

[ad_1] The new Philips Hue Sync app for macOS and Windows 10 is available today, and it’s ambitiously being touted as a way to create “surround sound for your eyes.” It’s akin to the Ambilight and AmBX ambient light technology Philips has used on TVs and gaming monitors in the past. Except the idea hereRead more about Philips Hue Sync app transforms video into a brilliant light show[…]

Spin current switch demonstrated

Spin current switch demonstrated

[ad_1] “This is significant because although the technology behind detecting and generating the spin current has been established for some time, a long-missing component in the history of spintronics has been a spin current switch,” said Tohoku University, equating it to a transistor in charge-based electronics. The device has a three layer structure, which sandwichesRead more about Spin current switch demonstrated[…]

How can mobile technology unleash your creativity?

How can mobile technology unleash your creativity?

[ad_1] The first Industrial Revolution changed the way people worked forever. For the UK, this meant a shift from an agricultural economy towards a more urban one.   We are now in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and are experiencing a new world of work, dominated by the introduction of exciting and innovative technology such as AIRead more about How can mobile technology unleash your creativity?[…]

TI mass-producing UWB 76-81GHz mmWave radar sensors

TI mass-producing UWB 76-81GHz mmWave radar sensors

[ad_1] The radar sensors, which will first appear in vehicles on the road in late 2018, to enable ADAS applications, which include long-, short- and medium-range radar. Outside of ADAS, engineers are using the automotive-qualified AWR1642 sensor to detect free space and obstacles near doors and trunks, occupancy detection inside the cabin, intruder alert andRead more about TI mass-producing UWB 76-81GHz mmWave radar sensors[…]

Optus is offering exclusive phone plans to keep Virgins from fleeing

Optus is offering exclusive phone plans to keep Virgins from fleeing

[ad_1] With Optus having officially sacrificed Virgin Mobile, many former Virgin customers are likely now looking to take up new phone plans that offer similar value to what they had before.  Optus, which already hosts the Virgin network, has decided to throw those displaced Virgins a bone, announcing a number of plans and phone bundlesRead more about Optus is offering exclusive phone plans to keep Virgins from fleeing[…]